Another EBay absurdity

From: Ward Donald Griffiths III <gram_at_cnct.com>
Date: Wed May 13 21:57:37 1998

William Donzelli wrote:
>
> > I think the ZX81 was intended to be affordable, and many people owe their
> > start in computers to Mr. Sinclair for producing a computer that could be
> > bought on a limited budget.
>
> Yes, but the instructions for the kit, amongst the worst ever written, are
> inexcusable!

Come on now, Bill -- I assume you've read an Ashton-Tate dBase
manual in your time. Or a Chrysler service manual. The Sinclair
instructions were sufficient unto the day. Hell, consider the
documentation IBM provided about their hardware to the "end user"
in that era pre-PC (and the early PC docs weren't much to write
home about).
-- 
Ward Griffiths
They say that politics makes strange bedfellows.
Of course, the main reason they cuddle up is to screw somebody else.
				Michael Flynn, _Rogue Star_
Received on Wed May 13 1998 - 21:57:37 BST

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